Patents Examined by Tinsae B Ayalew
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Patent number: 12293928Abstract: A substrate treating device includes a liquid treating chamber for liquid-treating a substrate therein, a drying chamber for dry-treating the liquid-treated substrate, a transfer device for transferring the substrate between the liquid treating chamber and the drying chamber, and a controller for controlling the liquid treating chamber and the transfer device. The transfer device includes a transfer robot having a hand for placing the substrate thereon, and a heating member for heating the substrate. The controller controls the transfer device such that the heating member of the transfer device heats a liquid on the substrate to a first temperature before the transfer device transfers the substrate taken out from the liquid treating chamber to the drying chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Eui Sang Lim, Yong Hee Lee
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Patent number: 12290225Abstract: A dishwasher and method for making and/or using the same utilize one or more walking tubular spray elements that may be used to effectively increase the spray coverage area of the tubular spray elements through rotation and/or movement of the walking tubular spray elements in directions other than about the longitudinal axes thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Joel Boyer, Bassam Fawaz, Mark W. Wilson, Robert M. Digman, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Patent number: 12280406Abstract: A cleaning system for washing an internal surface of a container located on a vehicle, the cleaning system comprising an elongate boom with at least one nozzle located at a first end of the boom, a support assembly for supporting the boom, wherein the boom is movable with respect to the support assembly, a controller configured to control movement of the boom, and a vehicle identification system comprising an identification reader configured to identify the vehicle and communicate with the controller, wherein one or more parameters of the vehicle can be stored on or retrieved from the vehicle identification system upon identifying the vehicle, and wherein the boom is configured to extend into the container to wash the internal surface based on the one or more parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Drumblaster Technology Pty LtdInventors: Jonathan Sweet-Kirkwood, Leon Muller
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Patent number: 12281430Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus is configured to directly heat a drum containing laundry therein. The laundry treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet forming an external appearance of the laundry treatment apparatus; a tub provided in the cabinet; a drum configured to rotate within the tub and to contain laundry therein, the drum being formed of a metallic material; an induction module provided at an outer surface of the tub and configured to heat the drum within the tub via induction by generating a magnetic field; and wherein the outer surface of the tub comprises at least one mounting portion that is configured to mount the induction module, with at least part of the at least one mounting portion being arranged radially closer to a rotational axis of the drum than a remaining portion of the outer surface of the tub.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Beomjun Kim, Bio Park, Sangwook Hong
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Patent number: 12274409Abstract: A beverage container washing system may utilize a through opening air knife to direct a flow of pressurized fluid through an opening in a concentric housing member of a beverage container washing system and onto a beverage container disposed within a wash chamber thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Joel Boyer, Robert M. Digman
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Patent number: 12275043Abstract: The invention relates to an item-to-be-cleaned carrier for the cleaning of items to be cleaned, which have at least one cavity, the cleaning being performed in a conveyor washer. The item-to-be-cleaned carrier can be used in particular for cleaning personal protective equipment. The item-to-be-cleaned carrier comprises at least one base element and at least one nozzle tube, which is connected to the base element. The nozzle tube has at least one inlet opening having at least one catching funnel. The nozzle tube has at least one outlet nozzle. The nozzle tube tapers, at least in parts, from the inlet opening to the outlet nozzle. The invention further relates to a cleaning system and to a method for cleaning items to be cleaned, which have at least one cavity, using the cleaning system.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Engelbert Ecker, Bruno Gaus, Wendelin Hils, Thomas Näger, Marc Scherer, Marijan Simundic
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Patent number: 12264427Abstract: Disclosed herein is a washing machine that includes a tub disposed in a main body of the washing machine to store water. A circulation apparatus includes a circulation pump operable to circulate the water in and out of the tub. A detergent supply apparatus is coupled to the circulation apparatus to discharge detergent to the circulation apparatus so that operation of the circulation pump causes the discharged detergent to be supplied to the tub.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Kwon Kim, Kyung Mok Yoo, Seon Ju Lee, Chul Yong Cho, Jong Su Jeon
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Patent number: 12266547Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cleaning system for a semiconductor, including a rotating mechanism, a liquid removing mechanism coaxially arranged on a circumferential outer side of the rotating mechanism, and a cavity mechanism arranged around an outer side of the liquid removing mechanism. The rotating mechanism includes a carrier plate for holding a wafer in a horizontal posture and a transmission unit for driving the carrier plate to rotate axially. The liquid removing mechanism includes a hollow shaft driver sleeved on an outer side of the transmission unit and a liquid guiding ring annularly arranged on a circumferential outer side of the carrier plate and controlled by the hollow shaft driver to rotate along an axial direction. The present disclosure realizes that the cleaning waste liquid is thrown into the cavity mechanism for recycling, to completely recycle the cleaning waste liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Suzhou Zhicheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tianxiang Zhao, Shipin Yang, Shiyu Zhang, Xianmiao Sun
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Patent number: 12255081Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes multiple first substrate processing devices, one or more second substrate processing devices and a transfer unit. Each of the multiple first substrate processing devices is configured to process a substrate one by one. The one or more second substrate processing devices are configured to simultaneously process multiple substrates, which are processed in the multiple first substrate processing devices. The transfer unit is configured to simultaneously carry the multiple substrates, which are processed in the multiple first substrate processing devices, into a same second substrate processing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Shinichi Hayashi, Hiroaki Inadomi, Shota Umezaki, Suguru Enokida, Kouji Kimoto
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Patent number: 12255082Abstract: A substrate processing method arranges a plurality of substrates in a storage area of a chamber, supplies an organic solvent to the plurality of substrates, arranges the plurality of substrates in a drying area, supplies a vapor of a hydrophobizing agent from a hydrophobizing agent nozzle to the plurality of substrates, arranges the plurality of substrates in the storage area, supplies an organic solvent from a first organic solvent nozzle to the plurality of substrates, supplies a vapor of an organic solvent from a second organic solvent nozzle to the drying area in a state where a liquid is stored in the storage area and the plurality of substrates are dipped in a liquid.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yuta Hamashima, Jun Nonaka
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Patent number: 12246684Abstract: A vehicle cleaner system includes a cleaner unit discharges a cleaning fluid toward a cleaning target mounted on a vehicle; a motor pump supplies the cleaning fluid to the cleaner unit; a normally closed type solenoid valve provided between the cleaner unit and the motor pump and switches between permission and non-permission of movement of the cleaning fluid from the motor pump to the cleaner unit; and a cleaner control unit controls the motor pump and the solenoid valve. The cleaner control unit sets an operation stop time period for stopping an operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve, and after the cleaning fluid is discharged to the cleaning target, stops the operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve during the operation stop time period based on a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hikaru Nagai, Akinobu Kubota, Kazuki Kawamura, Toshihisa Hayami, Yusuke Funami, Yoshio Ito, Kazuhiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 12239273Abstract: A cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher, for example, is proposed. The cover assembly includes a pivoting cover which is mounted on a support component and is to close an opening, wherein the pivoting cover has a cover part and a closure part which is movable relative to the cover part. The cover part has sealing faces which, on closing of the pivoting cover, come into sealing contact with sealing counter-faces encircling the opening. There are formed on the closure part engagement formations which, in a closed pivot position of the pivoting cover, can be brought into and out of holding-closed engagement with engagement counter-formations by relative movement between the closure part and the support component. The cover part is mounted on the closure part and is supported via the closure part on the support component.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & CO. KGAAInventors: Albert Dirnberger, Johann Kleber, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spießl
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Patent number: 12240019Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning a surface with a liquid jet, the apparatus having: a primary fluid conduit having a longitudinal axis and two ends, a fluid-intake end and a fluid-exit end; a first motor-driven drive assembly configured to engage the primary fluid conduit and turn the primary fluid conduit about the primary-fluid-conduit longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to engage the first motor-driven drive assembly; a section of the primary fluid conduit being inside of an adjacent penetration sleeve; a section of the penetration sleeve being inside of a piston sleeve; the piston sleeve configured to engage the penetration sleeve and move the penetration sleeve back and forth along a penetration-sleeve linear path over a primary-fluid-conduit exterior surface; an actuator configured to engage the piston sleeve and move piston sleeve back and forth along a piston-sleeve linear path; a penetration-sleeve end being attached to an extension sleeve that has a first end and a second end; the extension-sleeve secType: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Inventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien
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Patent number: 12232677Abstract: A dishwasher appliance includes a wash tub, a sump for collecting wash fluid, and a cylindrical filter screen positioned within the sump. A wash pump assembly includes a wash pump impeller and a supply conduit, the wash pump impeller being configured for urging the wash fluid through the cylindrical filter screen and into the supply conduit. A filter cleaning assembly includes a filter cleaning manifold positioned proximate the cylindrical filter screen and in fluid communication with the supply conduit and one or more vertical spray arms extending along the vertical direction adjacent the cylindrical filter screen, the one or more vertical spray arms defining a plurality of outer ports in fluid communication with the filter cleaning manifold, the plurality of outer ports being positioned and oriented for directing the wash fluid at least partially along a circumferential direction about the cylindrical filter screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Adam Christopher Hofmann, Kyle Edward Durham
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Patent number: 12227892Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a washing machine including a cabinet including a front panel in which a laundry inlet is formed, a door coupled to the front panel to open and close the laundry inlet, a door-lock disposed on a rear of the front panel and coupleable with the door to maintain the door in a closed state, a cover member mounted on a rear surface of the front panel to cover the door-lock, and a sealing member sealing a gap between the cover member and the rear surface of the front panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Baekgyu Kwon, Minhyung Kim, Naeyoung Park, Jonghun Sung
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Patent number: 12220095Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling an automatic cleaning device, an automatic cleaning device, and a non-transitory storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a position of a working region of the automatic cleaning device; obtaining a reference data associated with the working region based on the position of the working region; obtaining a current environment parameter of the working region; comparing the current environment parameter with the reference data to generate a comparing result; and controlling the automatic cleaning device based on the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jingying Cao, Song Peng
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Brushless car wash system including a telescoping unit for washing top and rear surfaces of vehicles
Patent number: 12208776Abstract: A brushless car wash system includes a wash unit that washes upper surfaces of the vehicle. The height of the wash unit is adjusted based on the contour of the upper surfaces of the vehicle. Adjusting the height of the wash unit results in increased wash performance of the brushless car wash system.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NTI Co., LTDInventors: William Yoon S Chu, Jinchul Cho, Hyuntae Kim, Heon Sagong, Hyeonseop Shim -
Patent number: 12202120Abstract: The tool cabinet having integrated cleaning system comprises a tool cabinet, a plurality of drawers, and a cleaning mechanism. The cleaning mechanism may be operable to spray a cleaning solution onto one or more tools stored in the plurality of drawers. Each of the plurality of drawers may comprise a perforated bottom panel such that waste liquid may flow to the bottom of the tool cabinet. The waste liquid may be collected in a sump and may be pumped to a waste reservoir. The cleaning solution may be sprayed onto the one or more tools from spray arms located above each of the plurality of drawers.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventor: Ryan Mikula
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Patent number: 12201257Abstract: A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. The beverage container washing system may include multiple concentric housing members supported on a base, and an air knife chamber that supply air from a stationary air supply to an air knife opening on a rotatable one of the concentric housing members.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Joel Boyer, Bassam Fawaz
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Patent number: 12194515Abstract: An inverting and cleaning device includes a positioning mechanism, an inverting mechanism, and a cleaning mechanism. The positioning mechanism is adapted to move a drum to a first position. The inverting mechanism includes a holding member. When the drum is located at the first position, the holding member clamps a drum body of the drum and inverts the drum to a second position where an opening on a top of the drum faces downward. The cleaning mechanism includes a cleaning tool. When the drum is located at the second position, the cleaning tool enters the drum through the opening of the drum for cleaning an inside of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TRUSVAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shih-Feng Chen, Shih-Pao Chien